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Profile
SARA is the Dutch National High Performance Computing and e-Science Support Center, and the Dutch supernode in the international Science Grid.
SARA supports research in the Netherlands by:
- state-of-the-art integrated services, facilities and infrastructure (High Performance Computing and Networking, Data Storage, Visualization, e-Science Services)
- multi-disciplinary expertise and support in ICT and applications
- innovation, engineering and development
- making advanced technology available and usable
- development and engineering of new technologies
- connection to and integration into international e-Infrastructures
- participation in national and international HPC and e-Science projects
Advanced infrastructure, service, support, innovation and development go hand in hand.
SARA's service portfolio:
High Performance Computing
Supporting (Grand Challenge) applications on:
- Dutch National Supercomputer (IBM Power6 system, 60 TFlop/s)
- National Compute Cluster (Dell Xeon InfiniBand cluster, 19 TFlop/s)
- GPGPU cluster (HP NVIDIA Tesla cluster)
High Performance Networking
- operations of Dutch NREN SURFnet6
- operations of the Dutch GOLE (GLIF Open Lightpath Exchange) NetherLight
- research in optical (lambda) networking (Lightpath planning and monitoring)
- research in end-to-end performance of media streaming
High Performance Visualization
- visualization of large scientific data
- ultra-high-resolution remote visualization services and support
- ultra-high-resolution video streaming (store-and-forward)
- SAGE Scalable Advanced Graphics Environment for collaborative visualization
Data Storage
- national e-Science Data Center
- Dutch LHC Tier-1 site
- advanced data services and support
e-Science Operations and Support
- Dutch Science Grid BiG Grid
- service and application development
- Dutch Life Science Grid
- High Performance Cloud services
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The national supercomputer Huygens, an IBM POWER6 system.
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